The truly important
questions about the birth stories are not whether Jesus was born of a virgin, or whether there was an empire — wide census that took Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, or whether there was a special star leading wise men from the East.
Not exact matches
Reading him the
stories Welcome With Love by Jennifer Overend and Runa's
Birth by Uwe Sillman encouraged him to ask questions about the home birth I had planned and to think about what might happen when our baby was ready to ar
Birth by Uwe Sillman encouraged him to ask
questions about the home
birth I had planned and to think about what might happen when our baby was ready to ar
birth I had planned and to think
about what might happen when our baby was ready to arrive.
My boyfriend and I have always talked
about a natural
birth and your
story is inspirational, I don't plan on having a baby anytime in the near future, but I might have to ask you a few
questions when it comes time;]!
How difficult was it to balance sharing your children's
stories — for instance, Tessa's
question about why Crystal and Joe, her birthparents, couldn't be her parents — with protecting their privacy and their relationship to their
birth families?
Also, if any of you listeners have any followup
questions, comments, things you want us to talk
about and expand upon from any previous episodes: home
birth stories, interviews with experts or any of our solo chats, please please please reach out so we can address it on the show!
Question: For adoptive families who do not have contact with
birth families due to a variety of situations — perhaps their child was adopted internationally or through a relinquished / closed domestic infant adoption, and they did not receive much if any info
about the child's
birth family — what would you recommend for how to raise their child and talk
about their adoption
story, knowing that they do not know much
about their child's past and there is no contact with the
birth family?